It’s not every day that your dreams come true but for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that is exactly what happened, and someone captured the moment on camera. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset of Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's 14th Congressional District's Democratic primary is sending shock waves through Washington.Her win on Tuesday capped off a remarkable ascent -- which will likely make her the youngest person in Congress come 2019. Should she defeat her Republican opponent in November, she will arrive in Washington with a clear progressive agenda -- to push for "Medicare for all," the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and legislation to drag big money out of politics.Ocasio-Cortez's own story begins in the Bronx, New York City, the same borough that, along with parts of Queens, delivered for her on primary day. She was born and raised there, the daughter of working class Puerto Rican parents -- her father born in the South Bronx (he died in 2008, while she was in college); her mother on the island -- she went on to study at Boston University and work in the office of liberal lion Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.During the 2016 presidential season, she worked as an organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran in the Democratic primary. In 2017, Ocasio-Cortez launched her campaign to unseat Crowley, the powerful Democrat who chairs the party in Queens County.

It’s not every day that your dreams come true but for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that is exactly what happened, and someone captured the moment on camera.

Her win on Tuesday capped off a remarkable ascent -- which will likely make her the youngest person in Congress come 2019. Should she defeat her Republican opponent in November, she will arrive in Washington with a clear progressive agenda -- to push for "Medicare for all," the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and legislation to drag big money out of politics.

Ocasio-Cortez's own story begins in the Bronx, New York City, the same borough that, along with parts of Queens, delivered for her on primary day. She was born and raised there, the daughter of working class Puerto Rican parents -- her father born in the South Bronx (he died in 2008, while she was in college); her mother on the island -- she went on to study at Boston University and work in the office of liberal lion Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.

During the 2016 presidential season, she worked as an organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran in the Democratic primary. In 2017, Ocasio-Cortez launched her campaign to unseat Crowley, the powerful Democrat who chairs the party in Queens County.